Example sentences of "believe that [adj] [noun] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 2 | In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised . |
| 3 | Believing that tragic greatness was founded on an exploration of a great individual , the literary institution found ways of assuring that Shakespeare 's plays observed their premises . |
| 4 | Detectives now believe that 25-year-old Stephanie was held in a large workshop or warehouse type building . |
| 5 | Lloyd 's Register , which carries out structural surveys of ships to enable them to be insured , believes that structural failure was to blame for many of the losses and is mounting an urgent investigation to establish whether this is the case . |